Burleson County, Texas

• White (non-Hispanic) 11,781 62.5%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4,276 22.7%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 2,002 10.6%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 123 0.7%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 620 3.3%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 4 0.0%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 51 0.3%

• Under 18 4,138 21.9%
• 18–24 1,160 6.2%
• 25–44 4,408 23.4%
• 45–64 4,981 26.4%
• 65 and over 4,170 22.1%

Median household income

$70,451

90% interval $62,981–$77,921

−$9,272 vs TX · 86th of 254

Below poverty line

13.7%

90% interval 10.6%–16.8%

+0.3 pp vs TX · 154th of 254

Unemployment (12-mo)

3.6%

−0.67 pp vs. state

County GDP

$1.3B

0.05% of state

Avg. annual pay

$58,882

Establishments

434

• Trade, transportation & utilities 1,064 20.8%
• Education & health services 882 17.2%
• Construction 771 15.0%
• Manufacturing 564 11.0%
• Leisure & hospitality 556 10.8%
• Professional & business services 344 6.7%
• Natural resources & mining 238 4.6%
• Public administration 214 4.2%
• Financial activities 188 3.7%
• Other services 178 3.5%
• Unclassified 22 0.4%
• Information 18 0.4%

The sectors listed cover 98.3% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

81.7%

+19.1 pp vs TX · 30th of 254

Median gross rent

$1,063

−$340 vs TX · 76th of 254

Owner-occupied

6,456

Renter-occupied

1,444

• Diversified

  Top three sectors employ 53% of the workforce, a relatively diversified local economy. Expect mixed employer backgrounds on the panel rather than concentration in any one institution or industry.

• Moderate wage spread

  Highest-paid sector (Construction, $79,757/yr) pays 3.3× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $24,161/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 12 workers, a mix of institutional employers and small businesses. Both employed-by-large-institution and small-business-owner perspectives are likely on the panel.

• Republican 7,590 81.0%
• Democratic 1,705 18.2%
• Other / third-party 70 0.7%

• Spanish 2,623 14.6%
• Vietnamese 72 0.4%
• Korean 28 0.2%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 22 0.1%
• Tagalog 19 0.1%
• German or other West Germanic 17 0.1%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 5 0.0%

Households

7,900

Family households

5,109

64.7% of households

Married couples w/ children

1,308

25.6% of families

Single-mother families

416

8.1% of families

Veterans

1,049

7.1% of civilians 18+

• Catholic 5,082 28.8%
• Evangelical Protestant 4,343 24.6%
• Mainline Protestant 1,505 8.5%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 692 3.9%
• Black Protestant 126 0.7%

Health insured

87.4%

±2.1 pp

Uninsured

12.6%

±2.1 pp

216th of 254

With a disability

15.0%

±2 pp

142nd of 254

Bachelor's or higher

23.5%

±3 pp

−10.3 pp vs TX · 85th of 254

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

21.4%

90% interval 19.6%–23.2% · Census SAHIE

The under-65 uninsured rate is not comparable to the ACS insurance figures, which cover all ages.

Trial court

21st District Court

Judges

1 (Total District Court judges with venue over this county; vintage 2026 txcourts.gov directory + Tex. Gov't Code § 24. Texas's court structure is unusual: each urban county has dozens of numbered District Courts (Harris ~60, Dallas ~45, Travis ~25, Bexar ~25, Tarrant ~20) with trial assignments random across the full bench. Rural counties typically have 1-2 District Court judges sitting on a multi-county district. County Court at Law judges (limited jurisdiction) and Constitutional County Court judges (presided over by the elected County Judge) are separately allocated and not counted here. TX has ~474 District Court judges statewide.)

Court seats

Bastrop, Brenham, Caldwell, Giddings

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

8

54.35 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

7